Nikolai Sukhanov

ISRAEL GETZLER was born in 1920 in Berlin and spent the war years in Soviet Russia. He is the author of Martov: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat, Neither Toleration Nor Favor: The Australian Chapter of Jewish Emancipation, Kronstadt: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy, and of numerous articles and chapters in scholarly journals and books.

• Preface Glossary Introduction Champion of the Russian Village Commune Ideologist of the February Revolution Chronicler of Russia's Democratic Revolution In Opposition to the Bolshevik 'Jacobin' Dictatorship Knight Errant of the Obshchina Sukhanov at the Menshevik Trial Notes Appendices Bibliography Index

'It is a splendid piece of work, almost a work of scholarly benediction: the message comes through that Sukhanov, much maligned and neglected for decades, was in fact one of the great moral forces in both the history and historiography of the Russian Revolution.' - Robert Service, St Antony's College, Oxford 'This important work will be essential reading for all serious students of the Russian revolution.' - James D. White, Slavic Review